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Part I. Basics: 1. A brief introduction; 2. Special relativity and extradimensions; 3. Electromagnetism and gravitation; 4. Non-relativistic strings;5. The relativistic point particle; 6. Relativistic strings; 7. Stringparameterization and motion; 8. World-sheet currents; 9. Light-conerelativistic strings; 10. Light-cone fields and particles; 11. Relativisticquantum particles; 12. Quantum open strings; 13. Quantum closed strings; PartII. Developments: 14. D-branes and gauge fields; 15. String charge, electriccharge, and particle physics; 16. String thermodynamics and black holes; 17.T-duality of closed strings; 18. T-duality of open strings; 19.Electromagnetic fields on D-branes; 20. Nonlinear electrodynamics; 21.Covariant string quantization; 22. Interactions and Riemann surfaces; 23.Loop amplitudes in string theory; References; Index.